C.N. Yang and Themes in Contemporary Physics
| Tuesday, October 13 | |||||
| 9:30 – 11:05am | George Sterman | Stony Brook | Welcome, and Frank Yang’s strong force | [video] | [PDF] [PPTX] |
| Yoichi Kazama (via Zoom) | U. Tokyo |
Frank Yang, an extraordinary teacher and collaborator |
[video] | [PDF] | |
| Yuefan Deng | Stony Brook | Symmetry and computing: Carbon-60, Waring's problem and C.N. Yang | [video] | [PPTX] | |
| 11:05 – 11:30am | Coffee | ||||
| 11:30am – 12:40pm | Michael Douglas | Harvard | The Yang-Mills Millennium Prize Problem | [video] | [PDF] |
| Juan Maldacena | IAS | Yang-Mills theory, strings and gravity | [video] | [PDF] | |
| 12:40 – 2:00pm | Lunch | ||||
| 2:00 – 3:45pm | Alexander Zamolodchikov | Stony Brook | Yang-Baxter equations, Yang-Lee singularity, and Ising field fheory in an external field | [video] | [PDF] |
| Pedro Vieira | Perimeter & ICTP-SAIFR | Connections in SYM, connections in String Theory, connections between the two, connections to C.N.Yang | [video] | ||
| Claude LeBrun | Stony Brook | Yang-Mills theory’s impact on geometry and topology | [video] | [PDF] | |
| 3:45 – 4:15pm | Coffee | ||||
| 4:15 – 5:25pm | Norman Christ | Columbia | From symmetry to substance: using discrete Yang-Mills symmetry to study matter-anti-matter asymmetry | [video] | [PDF] |
| Zoltan Fodor | Penn State | Muon magnetic moment: new physics or the most precise justification of quantum field theory? | [video] | [PDF] | |
| 5:30pm- | Reception | ||||
| Wednesday, October 14 | |||||
| 9:30 – 10:40am | Klaasjan van Druten | Amsterdam | Yang-Yang thermodynamics: past present and future | [video] | [PDF] |
| Li Hua Yu | BNL | From quantum decoherence to free electron lasers, Advice and collaboration with C.N. Yang | [video] | [PPTX] | |
| 10:40 – 11:10am | Coffee | ||||
| 11:10am – 12:50pm | Natan Andrei | Rutgers | C.N. Yang and integrability: Review and recent results | [video] | [PPTX] |
| Ashvin Vishwanath | Harvard | Anyons, Superconductors and the Legacy of C.N. Yang | [video] | [PPTX] [KEY] | |
| Shu-Heng Shao | MIT | Laws of physics in a mirror | [video] | [PPTX] | |
| 12:50 – 2:15pm | Lunch | ||||
| 2:15 – 4:00pm | Chris Quigg | Fermilab | What will happen next? A little tour of particle physics | [video] | [PDF] |
| Cumrun Vafa | Harvard | Yang-Mills theory and quantum gravity | [video] | [PPTX] [KEY] | |
| Peter van Nieuwenhuizen | Stony Brook | Yang-Mills in (Super)Gravity and Frank Yang in Y(ITP) | [video] | [PDF] | |